Free love: See the US Open qualifiers for free, all week
Five-time US Open winner Roger Federer headlines the 2012 men’s singles field for the 2012 Open. Free professional sports! During the daytime even, giving you a probably good enough reason to skip...
View ArticleDream job alert: Manage your own bikini basketball team
Just don’t suggest signing Eddy Curry. For basketball AND bikini reasons. So you saw the Knicks pass on Jeremy Lin or the Nets blow the Dwight Howard deal and fumed to your friends that you could do a...
View ArticleHey freelancers, here’s 3 free things to make you healthier
Via Toothpaste for Dinner. The Freelancers Union has been making huge moves lately to help you get and stay healthy, probably because everyone knows the freelancers’ life is based on a diet of...
View ArticleOof! Enter to win a brand-new bike from VANMOOF!
That sleek VANMOOF look. We know you brokesters love your bicycles, so we’ve got good news: we’re giving one away. No, we didn’t scrounge up a vintage Huffy with pegs and streamers (that’s so last...
View ArticleOne thing Sandy didn’t blow away: our free VANMOOF bike for you
You’ve got a few more hours to make it yours So you might have heard that the subway is underwater. In that case, how the hell are you supposed to get around? Fortunately, our bike giveaway with Dutch...
View ArticleHi five, football fan! The Jets’ pain is your gain
It’s been a tough season for Gang Green. via FARK It’s been a tough season for the Jets, from owner Woody Johnson taking a loss in the presidential election to the continued irrelevancy of human meme...
View ArticleTwo ways to look at tonight’s Knicks/Nets game
Who run the court? Girls The Knicks and Nets square off at Barclays again tonight, but unlike their first meeting when both teams couldn’t stop winning, they seem to be moving in opposite directions...
View ArticleIt’ll all work out this year: 5 gyms offering New Year’s deals
Gotta be in shape to hide all those eggs. via Facebook It’s the most wonderful time of the year…for gym owners. Everyone swears that 2013 will be THE year that they will get into kickass shape. Will...
View ArticleBrooklyn Dodger fans once threatened secession over a World Series parade
This was almost the site of the second American Civil War As you may have gleaned from our Twitter account (follow us!), we took a trip to Barclays earlier this week. Very space age, the food is better...
View ArticleLearn to run with The South Brooklyn Running Club
Look at that, even babies are in the club. You gonna be outdone by a baby? via SBRC So you see all these fit people in their tights and shorts running by you every morning and you think to yourself,...
View ArticleThey can do it! Meet the New York Riveters, Brooklyn’s first women’s hockey team
Morgan Fitz-Ward eyes the ice at Aviator Sports Center. Gabrielle Westfield/Brokelyn It amazes me that after everything we’ve managed to accomplish in North America, sports teams are still gendered,...
View ArticleNYC’s most scenic place to go climbing opens next week
Brooklyn Bridge Park’s climbing gym is right under the Manhattan Bridge. Via Brooklyn Bridge Park. One of the things your friends who live “elsewhere” in the world will tell you they don’t like about...
View ArticleIf the gym fits: Reviewing Brooklyn’s most popular fitness cults
Do you believe? via PTVLA Hear that, Brooklyn? It’s the sounds of tulips blooming, birds chirping, ice cream trucks lurching forth from the rat-infested warehouses where they invariably spend their...
View ArticleA slacker’s guide to showing up for your friends at the Brooklyn Half...
Even if you just wave, it makes a difference. Bridle Path Track Club / Flickr This Saturday, starting at an ungodly 7am, Brooklyn will be taken over by runners from around the world, runners who I can...
View ArticleDid you know? NYC offers a free version of ClassPass called ShapeUp NYC
Shape Up NYC offers 350 free classes across all five boroughs. Photo via Shape Up NYC on Facebook. The year was 2004, when Facebook launched and Michael Phelps won his first Olympic gold medal, and the...
View ArticleRally for savings: attend the US Open qualifying tournament next week, for free
This could be you next week, plus tennis players. Photo via @christopherjindo on Instagram. Tennis fans who watched Andy Murray and Monica Puig clinch the gold medal in Rio on Saturday are no doubt...
View ArticleWhy joining this kickball league is better than a dating app
Just look at this group of eligible monkeys, would ya? That dating in New York is hard comes as no surprise to anyone. From myths of the “Friend Zone” with longtime acquaintances to the just plain...
View ArticleSkate over, boys: the Gotham Girls are holding tryouts for their 2017 season
The GGRD All-Stars are flexing to welcome you. via Instagram This ain’t your daddy’s roller rink. The Gotham Girls, New York’s all-lady roller derby league and a founding member of the Women’s Flat...
View ArticleYoga-tta try this: 6 yoga studios in BK that offer free classes in exchange...
Work from Om at places like Sacred Brooklyn. via IG user Lauren Benson Now is the winter of our discontent. We’re approaching the literal darkest time of year in terms of sunlight and the darkest time...
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